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TASID - Make Open Source

Suggest IBM make TASID 'Open Source' code and place it on the CBT tape. As noted in the below IBM website, "This tool is available on an 'AS IS' basis" and "In z/OS 2.2, some functions do NOT operate correctly. Selecting option 4, Initiator Status...
about 6 years ago in z/OS / ISPF 3 Not under consideration

Clean up the DSFS dsadm query reporting

In the DSFS product the dsadm query has a number of reports. The issue is that the heading format is inconsistent. examples: compression has no header metacache has a header but no dashed line below it some have no space before the header so if mu...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / Data Set File System (DSFS) 1 Future consideration

Improve DSFS error messages

Receiving a message like this: IDFS00329E Could not set creation parameters, return code 126 reason code ED07621A. Is confusing and meaningless to the average OMVS shell user. They are not used to finding a messages and codes manual ( which is so ...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / z/OS File System (zFS) 1 Not under consideration

Remove limitation of 1500 entries in D RRS,UREX

From an RRS perspective the D RRS,UREX command does not show any URs when the count exceeds the limit of 1500 entries. D RRS,UREX ATR624I 11.00.42 RRS UR EXCEPTION SYSTEM URID WAIT FOR * Data truncated. DISPLAY RRS work area exceeded This is a des...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / BCP_RRS 0 Future consideration

Free screen size in ISPF

As monitor size have increased and the format of monitor have change from 4:3 to 16:9 I see a lot of monitor setups with monitors in landscape and portrait mode. And with 27" and 32" monitors a lot more can be showed on screen. At the moment ISPF ...
6 months ago in z/OS / ISPF 0 Not under consideration

Rise limits of Guest Coupling simulation support

We try to run zOS systems within a sysplex with large DB2 group buffer pool structures. These structures cannot be allocated if zOS is running in zVM because they are bigger than the given (undocumented) limit. The intention is virtualize systems ...
6 months ago in z/VM 0 Future consideration

Import/Export capability for z/OSMF provisioning resources

Today - a lot of configuration needs to be done in order to publish a provisoning template in z/OSMF CP&M. This shared or dedicated resource pool require configuration of instance details, Job statement and the different resource pools for net...
over 2 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 0 Future consideration

Ability to send message to zOS Syslog from Docker container in zCX

In an attempt avoid custom code running on the z/OS side I'm simply using fluentd to format the messages then write them out to the USS syslog, which in turn is set to write them to the console. They're being written out fine but are all preceded ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Container Extensions (zCX) 3 Future consideration

Adding message indicates certificate replacement.

If RACDCERT ADD was issued against an existed certificate with same public key, it causes that your old/existing certificate to be replaced with the new one.But the output of RACDCERT ADD command doesn’t contains any info to indicate the replaceme...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / RACF 1 Future consideration

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.

Enhance JES2 to support compression of dynamic PDS PROCLIBs.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS / JES2 0 Future consideration

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